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Firefighters battled a controled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to train and recertify emergency personnel from around the Centre Region.

A team of Penn State emergency medical technicians moved a victim from the University Park Airport tarmac to a triage area during a full-scale emergency response exercise on May 23. The drill served as both a training and recertification exercise for response units around the region. Volunteers from the community acted as victims during the real-time drill.

Firefighters battled a controlled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to train and recertify emergency personnel from around the Centre Region. To view more photos from the University Park Airport emergency response exercise, click on the image above.

Firefighters battled a controlled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to train and recertify emergency personnel from around the Centre Region.

Emergency medical technicians from Mount Nittany Medical Center's Critical Care Transport Unit loaded a victim into an ambulance during a full-scale emergency response exercise at the University Park Airport on May 23. All commercial airports in the nation are required by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct on site emergency responses exercises every three years.

Firefighters prepared to respond to a full-scale emergency exercise on May 23 at the University Park Airport. Emergency personnel from Penn State and municipalities throughout the Centre Region participated in the staged emergency.

Lieutenant Colonel Roy Long, Chief of Staff for the Pennsylvania Civil Air Patrol, communicated with emergency responders from the command post during emergency exercises on May 23 at Penn State's University Park Airport. The full-scale emergency drill included response crews from Penn State and the Centre Region.

Emergency medical technicians responded to a victim during a full-scale emergency training drill on May 23 at Penn State's University Park Airport. Fire, hazmat, and EMT personnel from throughout the Centre Region took part in the simulated aircraft disaster exercise. Volunteers from the community acted as victims during the real-time emergency response exercise.

Most of the students traveling for their international reporting class trip to South Africa stopped to get a group photo in the airport upon arrival in South Africa on March 4. For more photos from the trip, click on the image above.

Through the efforts of airport staff, elected officials, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Bureau of Aviation and several other groups, the University Park Airport was able to build and will soon operate a new, 82-foot-tall, air traffic control tower. The new tower was unveiled at an opening ceremony on Dec. 7.

The ground floor of the University Park Airport control tower houses the electrical and mechanical rooms, and the emergency generators. Airport Assistant Director Ed Foster, right, explained to the group touring the facility that it would take failure of electricity from both State College and Bellefonte before the emergency generators would have to kick in to keep the control tower running.

University Park Airport flight operations continued as normal as the cab of the airport's new air traffic control tower was seated atop the rest of the structure early on Thursday, May 27. For more photos, click on the image above.

Approximately 260 volunteers, emergency response personnel and crisis coordinators were involved in a full-scale emergency response drill held May 27 at the University Park Airport. For more images, click on the photo above.

Orientation leaders Eduardo Barrientos, left, and Jaclyn Bealer shuttled students from the University Park Airport to new international student orientation at Findlay Commons in East Halls. The University Office of Global Programs is welcoming approximately 1,000 new international students to Penn State's University Park campus this week.